CVE-2016-6746 Information disclosure in Android

What is CVE-2016-6746?

CVE-2016-6746 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 25 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An information disclosure vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access sensitive data without explicit user permission. Android ID: A-30955105. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6746.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6746?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6746?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6746 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-6746 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6746 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7p25-gm2r-rrqv.